At the start of July I took the pro.vera that my GP had given me. I took it for eight days. Four days after I stopped taking the pills, my period turned up.

It’s been long enough since that I now feel it’s safe to say that doing this has had absolutely NO impact on my skin. My face is still basically a war zone, and I’m still terribly self-conscious about it.

Sigh.

I’ve got less than a month before I’ll be starting birth control pills in preparation for a September FET. I’m really hoping those will make a difference for at least the short-term. Long-term, once we are done with trying to add to our family (whatever the result), I’m still struggling to know what to do. All I know is the current state of affairs cannot become my new normal.

THE ULTIMATE BLOGROLL

OTHER BLOGS I READ

ABOUT ME

Just your average married, infertile, Canadian woman. I spent the first half of my thirties focused on two goals: motherhood and a PhD. IVF/ICSI brought us our son (E.) in 2011, but a sibling eluded us, despite our best efforts. In between pregnancy, parenting, and trying again, I wrestled the PhD into submission and defended in 2014. Now, after six years as a doctoral student, and seven years of blood draws, ultrasounds, and embryo transfers, it's time to figure out what comes next. A perpetual student, I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up, except write and run.